The railroad that never was : Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad / Herbert H. Harwood, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harwood, Herbert H., Jr.

Series:

Railroads past and present.

Railroads past & present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Pennsylvania Railroad.

Railroads--Design and construction.

Railroads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Herbert H. Harwood, Jr., tells the story of one of the most infamous railroad construction projects of the late 19th century. This 200-mile line through Pennsylvania's most challenging mountain terrain was intended to form the heart of a new trunk line from the East Coast to Pittsburgh and the Midwest. Conceived in 1881 by William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, and a group of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia industrialists, the South Pennsylvania Railroad was intended to break the Pennsylvania Railroad's near-monopoly in the region. The line was within a year of opening when J. P. Morgan broker

Contents:

The back story

Why?

Vanderbilt takes charge

The spoilers

The syndicate forms

A rugged route

Building a mountain railroad

The second front

Cooler heads and colder feet emerge

A summer cruise on the Hudson

Not quite dead

The end

Railroad to superhighway, more or less

Epilogue : ghost hunting along the South Penn.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253001559

0253001552

OCLC:

735596667